Game is not censored on Steam and Beta access!

[Denyal]

Hello everyone, from the Death end Re;Quest 1 forum, Idea Factory finally adressed the censorship poll and the people voted. the game will be uncensored here on Steam unlike the PS4 version. more info and also info on the coming closed BETA on the official blog post here: https://twitter.com/IdeaFactoryIntl/status/1268971091533238272?s=20

[Jeffer'son Airship]

Originally posted by Gregory:

Also I can't believe that Xbox 360 used to have so many JP games, stealing them right from under Sony's nose.Now they went to.....this.Spencer would destroy Sony by accepting more JP games as well.At least they will be having free online like you said.That's a start for MS.

The 360 had a ton of Japanese games because Microsoft was funding them in an effort to get a foothold in Japan but it failed so hard they gave up.

Japanese consumers simply will not buy a foreign product. They're not interested so it will always be a contest between Nintendo and Sony there.

Nintendo doesn't bring the powerhouse hardware and is seen as more for kids so Sony stlll dominates in the AAA space while Nintendo gets cut down ports.

And the censoring stuff is definitely beyond Sony. It's looking more and more like CERO is cracking down on things the last few years so Nintendo won't be a refuge for long.

[erobotan]

Originally posted by Mokinokaro:

And the censoring stuff is definitely beyond Sony. It's looking more and more like CERO is cracking down on things the last few years so Nintendo won't be a refuge for long.

this is just blatant false and full propaganda to make japan look bad. It's always sjw in the west who promote their censorious policy on anime tiddies.

[Jeffer'son Airship]

"I want to ignore the truth because it's inconvenient to my outrage culture beliefs."

CERO have been getting far stricter when it comes to content. They've even cracked down on a few Nintendo titles forcing model changes to avoid accidental underskirt shots.

[Kaldin]

Originally posted by Mokinokaro:

"I want to ignore the truth because it's inconvenient to my outrage culture beliefs."

CERO have been getting far stricter when it comes to content. They've even cracked down on a few Nintendo titles forcing model changes to avoid accidental underskirt shots.

Sony literally announced that they are doing the censorship. That quote literally applies to yourself.

[Jeffer'son Airship]

Originally posted by 「死の火」 Yamino Takamaru:

Sony literally announced that they are doing the censorship. That quote literally applies to yourself.

Except they could be censoring to be par with CERO requirements. So no. That quote doesn't apply. I'm also not part of any "outrage culture" unlike the person I was replying to who twists everything to be about SJWs even when they've been provided proof otherwise.

I don't agree with the censoring either. I was just saying that there's more than Sony's policies involved in this stuff nowadays. Japan is getting far stricter about game ratings. Even Nintendo first party titles have been affected. Sony seems like they might just have jumped on an overall trend early.

There's a general crackdown on this stuff across the board in a lot of Japan because of the Olympics.

[erobotan]

Originally posted by Mokinokaro:

Originally posted by 「死の火」 Yamino Takamaru:

Sony literally announced that they are doing the censorship. That quote literally applies to yourself.

Except they could be censoring to be par with CERO requirements. So no. That quote doesn't apply. I'm also not part of any "outrage culture" unlike the person I was replying to who twists everything to be about SJWs even when they've been provided proof otherwise.

I don't agree with the censoring either. I was just saying that there's more than Sony's policies involved in this stuff nowadays. Japan is getting far stricter about game ratings. Even Nintendo first party titles have been affected. Sony seems like they might just have jumped on an overall trend early.

There's a general crackdown on this stuff across the board in a lot of Japan because of the Olympics.

he's basically saying all of sony's sjw policy is caused by evil japanese cero. sjw is innocent lol.

U're definitely a censorship supporter who want to protect sjw from getting blamed.

[Jeffer'son Airship]

No I'm not. That's a nice strawman you're building there.

[Kaldin]

Originally posted by Mokinokaro:

Originally posted by 「死の火」 Yamino Takamaru:

Sony literally announced that they are doing the censorship. That quote literally applies to yourself.

Except they could be censoring to be par with CERO requirements. So no. That quote doesn't apply. I'm also not part of any "outrage culture" unlike the person I was replying to who twists everything to be about SJWs even when they've been provided proof otherwise.

I don't agree with the censoring either. I was just saying that there's more than Sony's policies involved in this stuff nowadays. Japan is getting far stricter about game ratings. Even Nintendo first party titles have been affected. Sony seems like they might just have jumped on an overall trend early.

There's a general crackdown on this stuff across the board in a lot of Japan because of the Olympics.

Soooo...why did Sony of Cal say that an multiple developers/publishers said "to comply with INTERNATIONAL standards"?
Nice strawmen you build there.

[Jeffer'son Airship]

Umm that's not at all a strawman by definition. He was claiming I was making an argument I wasn't. That's what a strawman is.

But that's fair enough. I did not read those interviews. I'm willing to admit mistakes.

That ties into more of Sony's "cleaning up their image" stuff. Which definitely has some links to the sjw stuff in that Sony wants to try to avoid offending anyone but they're not the only reason.

The thing is that stuff started three years before they moved to California (Monster Monpiece censored on Vita in 2013. They moved in 2016.) California is a symptom of them changing but not the cause.

Edit: actually that brings up why I suspect Nintendo is less prone to censoring with the Switch. The switch eShop has much stronger region locks than Sony does with a lot more divisions. So if a game did happen to run afoul of local guidelines, it's easier for Nintendo to just block sales in one region.

Sony is trying to distribute games they can essentially sell in every open market but what that results in is games that have to be watered down. There's also a lot of "anime is mostly for teenagers and children" mentality with this but that's a fairly common attitude in Japan and the West.

These games that are being censored are being held to an international standard of what is "appropriate" for teenagers rather than just getting different ratings per region. It could very possibly be Sony being lazy and not wanting to deal with arguments from ratings organizations.

The thing is that Sony is ultimately a business and will do what they think is best for their profits whether that be pandering to the woke crowd or just saving a lot of negotiation costs. It's probably a bit of both.

[Gregory]

"The fans have voted! The Steam version of Death end re;Quest 2 will contain the original Glitch costumes for the first game's characters who appear as playable party members".


This is just for the characters of the first game being in the second game, and how they will keep their original "uncensored" glitch form costumes.Meanwhile, the 3 new girls of the second game will be censored anyway no matter where you play the game.


Just took a good look at the first games characters again.You know....even censored they don't look that bad, compare to other games I've seen getting censored.This is literally having Sony complimenting the game.They could do 3 times worse.


Not trying to defend the console version but, playing a game where 6/9 characters are uncensored, and you play a battle.Imagine 2 of them being from the first game and the other 2 from the second game.At least 2 of them (one from the 1st and one from the 2nd game) being in glitch forms.Then you put them side to side and one is uncensored and the other one is censored (red tint like cloth on her body). Won't that look weird AF?

[Fayaine]

So where can i read an official statement that we get the uncensored ones ? i only see the poll post but not the confirmed results.

[Gregory]

Originally posted by Fayaine:

So where can i read an official statement that we get the uncensored ones ? i only see the poll post but not the confirmed results.

Here

https://www.iffysonlinestore.com/blog/death-end-request-2-launches-this-summer-apply-for-closed-beta-testing/

[Musou]

It's obvious that the new designs have been quickly censored during development before they were revealed to the public, there are some designs choices in the new glitch costumes that were obviously supposed to be skin, but had a simple texture color change either on Sony's demand or to apply to Sony's censorship laws, like a boob window on one of the characters but insted of skin it's something green. It should be easy for a modder to give those areas skin color again

This is the example I mean, it's obvious coming from Compile Heart that the boob window was supposed to show skin
https://www.iffysonlinestore.com/product_images/uploaded_images/derq2-eng1.png

[Fayaine]

Originally posted by Musou:

It's obvious that the new designs have been quickly censored during development before they were revealed to the public, there are some designs choices in the new glitch costumes that were obviously supposed to be skin, but had a simple texture color change either on Sony's demand or to apply to Sony's censorship laws, like a boob window on one of the characters but insted of skin it's something green. It should be easy for a modder to give those areas skin color again

This is the example I mean, it's obvious coming from Compile Heart that the boob window was supposed to show skin
https://www.iffysonlinestore.com/product_images/uploaded_images/derq2-eng1.png

Thats why we play on PC :D

[Hinamina]

Let's be honest, no modder will care for this game enough to revert the censorship on the new characters and possibly event scenes. Enjoying Mary Skelter 2 on the switch, uncensored. It's really fun.